On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 02:53:46PM +0100, Dave Beckett wrote:
>
> I find your description of the problems as evidence to consider a change.
I find it very uncompelling evidence, frankly.
> As far as I know, that is possible. QNames must have a : in them, all
> other names could be variable names. However, that would not make
> them stand out in the syntax - which is useful for reading them
Very -1 for not distinguishing variables syntactically by giving them
a leading character. iTQL doesn't do this, and hence I find reading
lots of it very frustratingl.
> > -> Replace the '?' by a '$' or '_' or at the very least allow the use
> > of a '$' or '_' as a synomym for the '?'.
>
> I could support either replacing ? with $ or allowing both. My
> slight preference is for replacing ? with $, neutral to negative on
> having both.
-1 on replacing "?" with "$". +1 on allowing both.
> -1 to those; don't say 'variable' to me.
Agree.
Best,
Kendall Clark
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